Michael A. De Leon is a graphic designer by day, but wears many hats in his off time. In 2004, after several years of covering the Spurs, he started Project Spurs, a Spurs team fansite as an outlet to provide content to Spurs fans, while continuing to write for himself and learning the ins and outs of online publishing and web design. He has since built a writing team and started a popular weekly Spurs podcast called the Spurscast.

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Popovich vs. D’Antoni: Chess vs. Checkers

There’s a lot of storylines heading in to the first round match up between the San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Lakers. Since Michael Jordan retired from the Bulls, either the Lakers or Spurs have represented the Western Conference in the NBA Finals 11 out of 14 years. There’s Tim Duncan facing Dwight Howard for the first time their careers, memories of .4, etc.